Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-09-25
FOR The LADIES'.


I'd. .atsled. / suppose. that the Dona
- Cousino Il coming 20 NeW
49, q soon IS the season = fa1fly
1870 This winter. Hzhe does, tne
wiIl have . sensation aud one q
- .oSf nat Il appreciates. The ChAi-
-. s sSorev oueen never does anything
- hsireS She proposes % take .
800 fuFnish Il as few houses N New
49, hsve ever been furnished, and e
!. = fhe air that she means 70 show
g. yoTkerw how unlimited cash can
.rterfain.. She can teach 9 lesson or
fwo in that art II she tries. enc = 2
EARNED professor, ano money ietenes
New York every time
The Sonora Cousinas . ssmetntns
more than the richest woman ~ the
worid. She has one Of the biggest ler-
tuues held By either sex, possiDly ne
jarrett on the Western continent. ene
e unless the last season OF two has
Add her greatly, something q 4 beau
~ she e q great deal OF an ecceutFsc
and not little Of q genius. She has
astonished pretty nearly all the capitals
a Europe In their turn. and she cannot
rest on her laurels without astonishing
New York, too.
The Dona Isadora Is not much short
NJ 10. bat ahe looks younger. She Is
rather above medium hight and dresses
Ia Iook tall. Her figure d graceful. but
her big dark eyes are her taking Tea
tura Her skin Is q Spanish brown
With a dash Of red under Il, and she
has quantities Of dark hair. She IL
one Oh the best dressed women In the
world In an imperial sort Of way. and
With 4 daring use Of color. ] doubt Il
there Is anywhere . private jewel col
lection 70 equal hers. She wears
more stones at one time than Is usual
with people who have not 50 many
and who live In North American lat
itudes.
No more clever business woman ex-
ists. She inherited cattle, married
mines, and now, a widow, has gone
into about every money producing en-
terprise In which Chill, the most pro-
Rressive Of Southern republics, has
engaged, She Is the biRgeat real estate
owner In Santiago and Valparaiso.
She has furnished the capital for man
ufacturing enterprises. Bhe has start
Cd art pOtteries. She has built q rail-
road and runs two lines Of iron steam
hard 10 estimate, but many people
ney muitiplies fast In her hands, for
her eye Is everywhere.
There was q young man, the son Of /
one OF her cousins, believe. whom she
sent to q New England college some
years ago. South Americans, by the
way, have q fancy for New England
The. young man was fairly
clever, very good looking, not At all /
studious, had plenty Of money, and
was q great fayorite. Shortly after the
beginning Of & term he left school alb
ruptly, sent abroad, so the tale went,
by within OF his rich relative. Some
magnificent rubies that she had many
times coveted had been offered for sale, |
and had gone on the market without
her knowledge. He was 10 hunt out
the buyer, trace the gems. and get
them for her at any price. The rubies
we're some Of Eugenie's Sit Is odd how
the ex- EmpFess's gems, laces and poo
die dogs turn up everywhere and they
we're In New York before he reached
the other side. A would-be swell dame
had paid a good many thousands for
them, and the scion Of the Southern
princes posted back again, got an in
lfoduction TO the house, fattered the /
good lady, told her the predicament |
Re was In, offered her q choice Of all /
The jewellers stores in creation ct any
figure, and, in short, got the rubies, de
IiYered them in person and saved his |
in life and Dona lsadora's /
good graces. Ii
There are two slender, graceful |
somewhere In their teens,
Who viii come out in New York, and
hieh times are ahead. Mother and
girls speak the purest English. as all |
Chilians do. The sonora is q tropical
creature, and, II all tales Of her are
true, subject TO cyclones.